Castor targets security costs U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa, has added a provision to a pending bill that will help workers and businesses at the Port of Tampa and other Florida ports eliminate duplicative and costly background checks. ...more

October 24, 2009

Marsha Passmore, director of outreach for Hopewell Funeral Home & Memorial Gardens, invites the community to the second annual Hopewell Lantern Ghost Walk on Oct. 31. The event will begin at 6 p.m. with music at McCall Park, Collins and Drane streets downtown. ...more

October 8, 2008

It is an elaborately crafted photographic film, extolled for its sharpness, vivid colors and archival durability. Yet die-hard fan Alex Webb is convinced the digital age soon will take his Kodachrome away. ...more

September 22, 2008

Tampa Bay lost another corporate headquarters today when shareholders of St. Petersburg- and London-based Danka Business Systems PLC voted to approve a $240 million sale of the office equipment and services company to Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA of Ramsey, N.J. ...more

June 27, 2008

Companies such as banks and credit-card vendors have long included paper ads and offers with their statements or bills. Customers usually have trashed the inserts. ...more

October 22, 2007